Colonial America

New Spain

Dr. Kane

mkane2@albany.edu Social Science 116 | MWF 12:35-1:30 PM

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Atlantic islands colonization

• Christianization as justification
• commodification of labor =/= commodification of people
• first "triangle trade"

1494 Treaty of Tordesillas and papal Inter Caetera

Taylor, New Spain

• what factors does Taylor argue were key to the Spanish conquest?
• how did Native people adapt to life under Spanish rule?
• why was the "Black Legend" useful to other European powers?

Mexica politics

• "imperial" consolidation 1400 - 1520
• dissolution of the Triple Alliance
• centralization of power with tributary city states
• cult of Huitzilopochtli and integration of new gods in alliances

Aztec empire

the conquest of Mexico

• 1517-1521
• several hundred conquistadors - and thousands of Tlaxacalan and Texcocoan warriors
• escalating hostage crises - La Noche Triste
• small pox outbreak and internal politics
• Siege of Tenochtitlán - abandonment of just war tactics

The Conquest of Tenochtitlán

cartography

Taylor, Spanish Frontier

• why were the Spanish less successful outside of central Mexico?
• how did Native people attempt to get rid of initial Spanish incursions?
• why did colonial administrators and missionaries sometimes disagree?

northern New Spain

• Taylor, pg 71
• southern extent of old Cahokian influence
• ethnogenesis and coalition of new confederacies
• Counter Reformation
• inner conversion follows outer conversion - civil and Christian

agriculture and environment

1680 Pueblo Revolt

• suspicion of conversos
• environmental change - livestock droughts
• traditionalist revivalism
• pre-contact politics + 80 years of cultural change
• syncretic religious practice post-revolt and semi-independence